# Stop On-Prem Breaches Without Disrupting Business-Critical Systems

Transform legacy systems with dynamic identities. No Downtime, No Rewrites, No Excuses.

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## Challenges

### Decades of static credentials piling up

Even as enterprises modernize, critical systems remain on-prem including data centers and private clouds to legacy apps, mainframes, and edge servers. But these environments often depend on overprivileged service accounts, long-lived secrets, and error-prone certificate management. Sprawl grows as these credentials connect into cloud and SaaS, creating hidden attack paths, operational toil, and governance gaps.

### Fixing the hidden risks in legacy systems

Defakto brings modern identity to every on-prem environment, eliminating secrets and unifying governance across legacy and cloud-native systems.

## Defakto’s universal identity model for on-premises

Defakto replaces static credentials and service accounts with short-lived, verifiable identities for all non-human actors, from servers and VMs to internal services and edge devices.

- Eliminate Active Directory sprawl and reduce AD service accounts by 90%
- Replace error-prone certificate management and end certificate expiration outages
- Enforce least privilege for apps, services, and workloads on-prem
- Govern access consistently across private infrastructure and cloud
- Gain visibility into every request, certificate, and connection

## Capabilities

### Delivering controls for on-premises

#### Servers & VMs

Issue ephemeral identities to Windows, Linux, and virtualized systems, eliminating local accounts and embedded credentials.

#### Private cloud platforms

Secure VMware, OpenStack, and other on-prem orchestration platforms without shared secrets or manual rotations.

#### Legacy applications & mainframes

Securely replace embedded credentials in apps that connect to databases, middleware, or APIs without modifying existing code.

#### Certificates & keys

Automate issuance of TLS, SSH, and code-signing credentials with short-lived, verifiable identity.

#### Edge & colocation systems

Extend automated identity to branch servers and remote infrastructure with the same policies as core environments.

#### Unified Defakto layer

Bring all privately managed infrastructure, from data centers to edge, under one consistent identity fabric.

## Business outcomes

### Secure legacy without disruptions

Protect critical on-prem systems without rewrites or downtime. Here’s what Defakto makes possible for your on-prem environments:

#### Protect critical systems

Secure the workloads that keep the business running, even if they can’t move to the cloud.

#### Reduce risk

Legacy systems are no longer isolated; remove unmanaged accounts, static secrets, and error-prone certificates.

#### Bridge to the future

Strengthen on-prem security today while preparing for hybrid and cloud tomorrow.

#### Simplify compliance

Unified visibility and controls across legacy and regulated systems.

#### Lower operational burden

Eliminate manual rotations, credential sprawl, and fragmented IAM practices.